So honey it’s the end of the affair
It’s the end of the affair and I don’t care
So sugar it’s been a long hard dirty year
Been a long hard dirty year this year

You got all your problems I got mine
My hands are tied behind me
All you do is waste all of my time
I don’t believe it’s true

It ain’t right
It ain’t right

I want you to leave me alone
Just leave me the hell alone on my own
Why won’t you lie and let it lay
Let this dog have his day anyway

You got all your problems I got mine
My hands are tied behind me
All you do is waste all of my time
I don’t believe it’s true

It ain’t right
It ain’t right

We all wanna see the great empire cut down in it’s prime
See its fruit die on the vine in prime time color time
And there are millions in this world that mercy will not touch
But they don’t mind that much that’s the way life’s always been
But you don’t wanna hear about that from me I know I know my place
And I know I don’t belong singing worthless freedom songs

It’s all a waste of time
It’s all a waste of time

Pretty girl who lives next door she don’t know how to lie
And when I look into her eyes I can see the day I’m gonna die
All the water flows from the cracks and holes in the silver reservoir
Where you’re never truly far from someone who’s exactly like you

It’s all a waste of time
It’s all a waste of time

Rock and Roll makes me feel guilty I got no defense
My sadness makes no sense
I’m getting rich and I’m making new friends
All of found is it gets colder further north you go
It’s piss and rain and snow
It’s the world I don’t want to know

It’s all a waste of time
It’s all a waste of time

Take it from me leave it behind

Can’t get off the ground in this holding pattern town
They put these buildings up just to bring me down
And I don’t trust my friends any more than I trust the cops
Any more than I trust this dirty air that’s burning up my lungs

So I’m giving it up
I’m giving it up
I’m giving it up for good
So I’m giving it up
I’m giving it up
I’m giving it up for good

My baby looks at me like her long lost prince of thieves
Sometimes it’s not enough to get only what you need
And I know I need her like the concrete needs the rain
Like a drunk needs ice in his glass like a ball needs a chain

I’m giving it up
I’m giving it up
I’m giving it up for good
So I’m giving it up
I’m giving it up
I’m giving it up for good

This is paradise
The place you come to die

I’m giving it up
I’m giving it up
I’m giving it up for good

Jimmy left New York for California
The east river wind blew him on his way
Past the cracked concrete through the sky he scraped
Said if you live like a ghost you don’t leave no trace
He stood on the edge of the big black ocean
If you lean too close you can fall right in
And a man he met said that California was sinking
That he was standing on the edge of the earth

It may be hard to believe

Before it all falls in I wanna make my mark
Before I go swimming with them Great White Sharks
I wanna walk this land with a pick and a pan
I don’t believe the gold rush is over
The man said boy you got some big ideas
You better make some room for the raging seas
Soon you’ll have salt water up to your ears
You’ll take one last breath and go under
It may be hard to believe

He wanted to find out how much he was worth
He wanted to leave a scar on the face of the earth
But the tricks of the trade made a fool out of him
Once a man eats well he gets hungry again
And it’s a hell of a day when you realize
The people you despise are keeping you alive
And you search down your soul
But you don’t have the guts
To look into that mirror and admit that you’re

Driving through the canyons singing songs from the sixties
The telephone rang she said babe do you miss me
And ain’t it a shame not to love the one you’re with
She spoke with the prettiest mouth and she scorned me
She sharpened her teeth and flashed them to warn me
I said ain’t it a shame when you hate the one you loved

It couldn’t be me
It couldn’t be me
No the man of your dreams he don’t look a thing like me

See I dated this rich girl with a mother of pearl
Who paid rent in her rise oh the weight of the world
And ain’t it a shame when you’re exchanging your brand new gifts
After a night on the floor she put the chain on her door
I wore out my welcome I guess she got bored
Cause she laid eyes on my brother and laid him across my bed

It couldn’t be me
It couldn’t be me
No the man of your dreams he don’t look a thing like me

It sounds like raining and out here that’s a rare thing
Out here in the desert we’re stealing our water
From a hole in a mountain that flows to the affordable homes
From the faucet it drips and we’ll clean up the messes
That the others have left us well I think they blessed us
There’s a chain on the door but I’m in love with the one I’m with

It couldn’t be me
It couldn’t be me
No the man of your dreams he don’t look a thing like me

It is best to keep it all inside
When the quicksand fills your boots and rises past your eyes
It is best to keep it all inside

When she’s telling you that you’re no good
That you’ll never be much more than some fool carved out of wood
It is better to die suffocating choking on your pride
It is best to keep it all inside

It is never too late to come home
You will always have a box in your room
Where your mama lays your clothes out and she leaves you where you lie
It is best to keep it all inside

But when it’s good it’s really good
When there’s fruit upon your table and she treats you like she should
But there’s no need to get excited and let your heels click on the floor
It is best to keep it all inside

Lips teeth
Are you 18?
I know I know I know you wanna come home
I know I Know I know
Can you still drive?
Can we survive?
LA is so weird
On THC
I know I know I know you wanna come home
I know I Know I know
I know you know what I'm thinking
I know I know I know you wanna come home
I know I know I know

Flying in a helicopter
Watering the wildfire
Watching the coyotes running for the hills
Driving down the 405 now
Dead coyotes on the roadside
The king is watching from the shelter of the trees

Give Coldwater Canyon back to the coyotes

Running past the gay bars and markets
Dealerships and pizza parlors
Past domesticated dogs choking on the leash
A big bad German Shepherd
The coyotes got him surrounded
And they tore that big dog into little bitty pieces

Give Coldwater Canyon back to the coyotes

Last night in Benedict Canyon
King Coyote in the governor’s mansion
Standing in the middle of the big man’s living room
The Governor could not reach his shotgun
So he offered King Coyote a pension
King tore the man’s heart right out of his chest

Give Coldwater Canyon back to the coyotes

Now the streets are empty
And the beachfronts and the studio lots
The forest grows over the freeway
And the vines cover whole city blocks
And all you can hear is that high and lonesome sound

Give Coldwater Canyon back to the coyotes

Since our separation you have taken up with thieves
Who tell you just how wonderful you are
Baby I have nothing but respect for you I would never try to rip you off
And I know that your heart still runs with mine you’re just afraid of getting soft

It’s a long long way to the middle
The middle of the road
It’s summertime in California I never felt so cold
It’s a long long way to the middle
The middle of the road
I still love you baby why don’t you come on home

I put the bad out of my mind and my memories are good
The hardwood floor ‘neath your kitchen door
Where you taught me all those dirty words
When we first made love under your ivory cross
It was a rainy Easter Sunday
And we were drinking champagne in the Mulholland Hills
When I finally felt the stone roll away

It’s a long long way to the middle
The middle of the road
You still got a hold on me even though you’re getting old
It’s a long long way to the middle
The middle of the road
I still love you baby why don’t you come on home
Why don’t you come on home

Happy birthday baby hope you’re getting realistic
Two months and two years away from the same old sad statistic
To live out in the wilderness you gotta learn to start a fire
But you can stand out there with your fist in the air
While the rest of us get on with our lives

It’s a long long way to the middle
The middle of the road
It’s summertime in California I never felt so cold
It’s a long long way to the middle
The middle of the road
I still love you baby why don’t you come on home

I took a camera on vacation to fit Miami in a frame
She didn’t mind she blew me kisses said “Boy what’s your name?”
I planned my dinner at the hotel
But then my dinner plans got wrecked
An investment banker started something
So I broke his neck

We’re all stuck out in the desert and we’re gonna die
Wipe that sand and salt from your blisterin’ eyes

The polygraph needles were jumpin’
My conscience Edward fell asleep
I can’t trust myself to tell the secrets I was told to keep
The fastest jackalope in Texas he started running outta luck
Bit by a snake then he got hit by Jimmy’s semi truck

We’re all stuck out in the desert and we’re gonna die
Wipe that sand and salt from your blisterin’ eyes

I know sometimes I get distracted
America’s so big and wide
With her long white fingers she says hush
I’m not the marrying kind
My mind moves faster when I’m walking
My baby’s shoes are dipped in bronze
I don’t give a shit she calls the shots that’s how we get along

We’re all stuck out in the desert and we’re gonna die
Wipe that sand and salt from your blisterin’ eyes

Baby, what am I going to do
Baby, what am I going to do
With you, with you

Well now I should say ‘bout a girl who took my love away
How that she left me all alone I don’t want to call my own

Baby, what am I going to do
Baby, what am I going to do
With you, with you

She had everything oh for my love to be
Oh but all she ever wanted was to be set free

Baby, what am I going to do
Baby, what am I going to do
With you, with you

Well just what do I have to do
To get your sweet lovin’ from you
Do I have to die once or twice
To keep it for the rest, the rest of my life, all of my life

If you were seventeen I’d still feel the same way
Oh there’s nothing in this world that could make me change my way

Baby, what am I going to do
Baby, what am I going to do
With you, with you